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Alaina. My princess who’s about to turn the big 1-0, is, in so many ways, my little mini-me. Looking back at my life, I can see how all my kids do things like I did at their age, so that either makes them (and me) normal kids, or that just shows how my genes were spread out among all of them. Anyway, Alaina has such spunk and can be so witty. She’s a perfect little blend of tom boy and girlie girl. Although I was mostly a tom boy, I’m sure deep in the recesses of my mind, there are girl moments that i’m trying to bury because I don’t associate with them like that.

Two years ago she got glasses because she inherited my horrible vision. It was almost as if the glasses provided an instant, extra layer of wit to her already witty and funny personality. Take those glasses off, and sometimes you wonder where it all went. I love it! So lately she’s been without glasses – she broke them and who knows where she discarded the broken pieces. With school starting soon, we needed to get new spectacles for her. I decided that she could go in for the eye exam by herself while I was just outside the door. Ten minutes later she comes out, all smiles, and the doctor says, “Well, Alaina’s doing everything that she’s supposed to be doing. There was only a slight change in her vision.” Which I was happy about, until the doctor continues and says, “We’ll hold on to the prescription since Alaina says she doesn’t need new glasses.”

……….wait, what?!……….I almost got whiplash when I turned to Alaina, who stood there with a bewildered look on her face that says, “Oh, is THAT what you meant when you asked if I needed new glasses?” Good grief!

Then there are situations like yesterday that really make me laugh. We go shopping, get out of the car, i’m holding Daniela’s hand, Dominique’s walking beside her and Alaina’s trying to wrap herself around me – the conversation goes like this:

Me: Alaina! What are you doing? Just hold my hand.Alaina: I’m just trying to hug you while you walk.Me: Honey, come on, please just hold my hand, that’s impossible.Alaina: Mommy, haven’t you ever heard that NOTHING’S impossible?!(Mind you, she’s still trying to wrap herself around me as we walk towards the store.)Me: Yes, you’re right, but THIS?! THIS isn’t going to work out and i’m going to fall on you.(She responds and it’s as if she isn’t really listening to me, go figure.)Alaina: But I guess the person who started the saying that “nothing’s impossible” (yes, she did the finger quotes) didn’t ever try to slam a revolving door. Now THAT’S impossible.Me: Not for Chuck Norris, it isn’t.Alaina: Yeah, he can do everything.

This brief conversation ended in such a matter of fact kind of way. Really, all I could do was smile and shake my head as we now enter TJMaxx and she’s ogling over the designer purses. Yep, she can be girlie.